http://www.ibtimes.com.au/apple-mac...-could-be-cheapest-ever-mac-device-siri-e-ink
Top features expected in the Apple MacBook Air 2017 are Retina Display, E-Ink keyboard, Intel Kaby Lake processor, ARM chips, Touch ID with Force Touch upgrade and a battery that could last up to 12.5 hours with web surfing. USB Type-C ports, SD card slots and Thunderbolt 3 are also anticipated
Really?
IB Times is renowned for bad reporting of tech stories, particularly with rumours that haven't been checked for plausibility.
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hi Um; so whats that eink keyboard?
Sonder is rumoured to be working on a prototype e-ink keyboard for next year's macbook range (not just the toy retina macbook, also the pro and the air if it returns.)
What this allows is that you can have a single internationally sold model that can change the keys layout on the fly with the e-ink for other languages and key layouts such as Devorak rather than Qwerty.
This would be more profitable for Apple, as it would reduce costs of small language manufacturing key layouts for Asian, European, Cyrillic, etc & it allows for bilingual support for languages such as Maori, Samoan, etc that have not been supported yet.
It would also mean that multi-lingual people can get better use out of their macbooks, and would become more useful and in higher demand amongst the 7 billion who don't speak English as their first language.
TLDR; it's a brilliant concept to serve customers better in the other languages that most of the world deals in by having a single global macbook keyboard that can display changeable e-ink characters on the keys.